No haikus today, but this is a set of poetry based on classic novels. See if you can figure out which ones they are! I'll post the answers at the end of the page.
Hollows
An empty stomach asking for more
An empty pocket replenished with stolen goods
An empty house taking in an orphan
An empty room imprisoning a kidnapped child
An empty heart protecting the defenseless
An empty soul striking down crushed love
An empty body dangling from the end of a rope
An empty family finally filled
Empty consciences demanding the old man's blood
Life, Death, and In Between
Keen eyes of a sailor grasping a rope
Jealous men plot destruction of love
Wedding bells never toll for them
A burnt letter seals his fate
Rowed away to the jail
Locked deep in a cell
Find secret friend
Hidden wealth
Rebirth
Roam
Home
No mirth
Plan in stealth
Meet men he ends
Unearth sins to tell
Force a banker to fail
An insane judge full of hate
A soldier's wife and son leave him
Join the man with the girl he dreams of
The couple reads note saying wait and hope
Sounds of Songs
The clinking chains cuffed on a criminal
The prayer of a priest
passed on a penitent
The growls of the gendarme
gripping the grimy
guttersnipe
The fleeing father with hands
fast around small fingers
friendly nuns shelter and feed
for a time
The worshipping man wondering wistfully
whether she will want him
when she loves him wholeheartedly
a woman withers in the wet rain
watching them
The stout arguments of students
seeing a state of sins
sending signs to take a stand
scarlet flag slain in the street
The dripping in the drains
daring in the darkness
deals with the devil lead to death
The tears trickle as two eyes close
truth told at last
The breath of broken body being reborn in brightness
Visions in Green
Kicking off our shoes in foam,
We followed the reflective track.
Floating in green light we roam,
Deep dreams sink down into the wreck.
Surface the sea just to breathe
Surface the sea just to bleed
We dive into memory
Reckoning up eternal cost
In fatal silence to be
Living in green light we are lost
Surface the sea just to breathe
Surface the sea just to bleed
We speed down the broken street
Silk blood flows slowly through the air
You forget how our hearts meet
My eyes glassy in green light stare
Surface the sea just to breathe
Surface the sea just to bleed
Okay, did you figure out which novels the poems are based on??? The answers are below!
Hollows - Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Life, Death, and In Between - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Sounds of Songs - Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Visions in Green - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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